Database view utility implemented through database records

Abstract

A method and system for implementing effects through database records. During an uninterrupted user session, the host system provides a database for maintaining records and a utility for receiving user commands defining views and effects associated with data items. The host system then receives user commands creating a record incorporating a data item into a field of the record, and defining a view for displaying the data item. The host system also receives user commands creating records defining an effect for implementation in association with the view. The host system stores the records in the database in a manner that reference the records defining the view and the records defining the effect with the record incorporating the data item. The host system then processes the database records to display the view and implement the effect in association with the view.

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